Biden lies every time he opens his mouth, so that isn't surprising. The thing that blew me away here was the image of the front page of the NY Post in the article that said "Cops stopped traffic just seconds before ship hit Baltimore span, saving many lives".
What the actual fuck? How did cops know to stop traffic and have time to actually do it? If they knew they had lost steering that long before the collision, they would have had enough time to drop anchor and stop the ship well before the impact. If they lost steering when the power cut out just seconds before the collision as seen in the video, there is no way the cops would have enough time to do shit about the traffic on the bridge. This doesn't make any sense.
I originally thought that this was just caused by incompetent diversity hires. Now it looks pretty damn glowy to me.
I'd guess since it's a toll bridge there's built-in access control at the toll booths. They say the boat made a mayday call. It's not too far fetched that there would be a procedure to halt bridge traffic at the toll booths upon any mayday call nearby, and it wouldn't take really more than a moment to just freeze the toll gates. It would account for there being a handful of cars still on it, those that had cleared the tolls but not completed the crossing in that time.
To your other point though, I still think there's probably a lot of negligence on the part of the boat captain and operators. I've flown planes, and both planning and emergency procedure is drilled in to you as part of training. Yet when you review crash outcomes, the ones that go bad don't identify it's a bad problem until it's too late. I suspect there had been control issues prior and they trudged on rather than aborting, dropping anchor to figure it out, calling for tugboats to assist, etc.
I'm also curious how a giant ship is ever in a position such that a loss of power will cause it to crash in a bridge within the next 30 seconds. 30 seconds! The procedure for leaving a harbor should never involve putting such a slow to maneuver craft in a position where 30 seconds is the difference between a collapsed bridge and a successful trip.
Ok that makes sense. I haven't driven through Baltimore in a few decades, so I couldn't remember if it was a toll bridge.
I agree that there was absolutely some gross negligence happening somewhere in the chain. This one will be fascinating to find out what happened when it all comes out.
Biden lies every time he opens his mouth, so that isn't surprising. The thing that blew me away here was the image of the front page of the NY Post in the article that said "Cops stopped traffic just seconds before ship hit Baltimore span, saving many lives".
What the actual fuck? How did cops know to stop traffic and have time to actually do it? If they knew they had lost steering that long before the collision, they would have had enough time to drop anchor and stop the ship well before the impact. If they lost steering when the power cut out just seconds before the collision as seen in the video, there is no way the cops would have enough time to do shit about the traffic on the bridge. This doesn't make any sense.
I originally thought that this was just caused by incompetent diversity hires. Now it looks pretty damn glowy to me.
I'd guess since it's a toll bridge there's built-in access control at the toll booths. They say the boat made a mayday call. It's not too far fetched that there would be a procedure to halt bridge traffic at the toll booths upon any mayday call nearby, and it wouldn't take really more than a moment to just freeze the toll gates. It would account for there being a handful of cars still on it, those that had cleared the tolls but not completed the crossing in that time.
To your other point though, I still think there's probably a lot of negligence on the part of the boat captain and operators. I've flown planes, and both planning and emergency procedure is drilled in to you as part of training. Yet when you review crash outcomes, the ones that go bad don't identify it's a bad problem until it's too late. I suspect there had been control issues prior and they trudged on rather than aborting, dropping anchor to figure it out, calling for tugboats to assist, etc.
I'm also curious how a giant ship is ever in a position such that a loss of power will cause it to crash in a bridge within the next 30 seconds. 30 seconds! The procedure for leaving a harbor should never involve putting such a slow to maneuver craft in a position where 30 seconds is the difference between a collapsed bridge and a successful trip.
Ok that makes sense. I haven't driven through Baltimore in a few decades, so I couldn't remember if it was a toll bridge.
I agree that there was absolutely some gross negligence happening somewhere in the chain. This one will be fascinating to find out what happened when it all comes out.